Thanks for the help guys.
trivkidd - I am crossfading at a zero point, that's what I get.
arv_foh - that section the middle IS a crossfade. If I added more crossfade's where you indicated I'd be crossfading the crossfade, and the end result would still be clicks and pops (only now I'd have 6 of them instead of the 2 I have now)
Yes, I am trying to fade with EA enabled. I guess that is the issue because I've never had this issue before. I know the proper workflow would be to do my edits, consolidate into 1 track, then do my EA, then render, then do any addtional edits after I've rendered.
However, in this particular case I did what I just said and enabled EA and did a bunch of quantizing clean-up to the single track, then we had some changes and tweaks to the riffs. So I unfortunately had to splice in other takes directly into my EA tracks, as I didn't want to lose the EA work that was already done in the unchanged areas and also didn't want to render until I had the final product arranged, and obviously that is now biting me in the ass (the best lessons are the ones hard learned I guess?)
So now my question is this, how can I commit the EA WITHOUT rendering the crossfades. I usually just hit edit>consolidate but that commits the EA and renders the crossfades all at once. Sorry for the noobness.